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Eve Arnolds’s People edited by Brigitte Lardinois

One of the first women admitted to Magnum, Eve Arnold, now 97, is best known for her portraits of Marilyn Monroe, shot on the set of The Misfits, not long before the actress's death. Other famous faces (Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich) are included here, but the joy of the collection, cherry-picked from her 60-year career, is that it shows just how diverse Arnold's output was. The first five minutes of a baby's life, undercover shots of the American Nazi party and an Arabic woman smoking through her veil all figure in her oeuvre. In 1979, Arnold found herself catapulted into China on a six-month assignment for The Sunday Times. Noodle-makers, factory workers, doctors, art students - and the little girl in curlers - come together to create a portrait of a nation on the brink of change. Like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Arnold liked to work quickly, operating at the outer reaches of her subject's awareness; yet it was important to her to win people's trust. As she put it in 2002: "If you are careful with people and if you respect their privacy, they will offer part of themselves that you can use. That is the big secret." J